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Tenkin and Career Management in a Changing Japan - Noriko Fujita

Tenkin and Career Management in a Changing Japan

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Buch | Hardcover
172 Seiten
2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0437-8 (ISBN)
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Drawing on the rich, qualitative-interview-based data from Japanese firms and dual-career workers, the author discusses Tenkin, cultural and gendered corporate transfers, workers’ agency, and argues the need to incorporate the concept of care in career management.
Tenkin, or corporate transfers in the Japanese contexts, is distinctive by its compulsory nature and embeddedness in society. Tenkin is a mandated practice. Workers have little discretion. If workers are dual-career couples with small children, how do they manage such a mandated employment practice? Tenkin and Career Management in a Changing Japan attempts to answer this question through qualitative interviews with human resource department managers in seven large firms and with 46 married, white-collar workers, including six men, and participant observation in several social events. The research uncovered that the culturally normative, gendered nature of tenkin is produced and reproduced by contemporary Japanese firms’ capitalists’ logic and gendered family assumptions. That said, it also revealed that some firms attempted to advance diversification and inclusion in their workplaces. The dual-career couples are also becoming the actors of tenkin through practices of negotiation in their workplaces and homes. The author discusses that these dual-career couples’ lives echo the concept of agency by Sherry Ortner (2006) and argues that for structural change to happen in Japan, the essential concept of care should be brought to the table in the discussion of career management for all workers.

Noriko Fujita is assistant professor in the College for Humanities at Tamagawa University.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Tenkin as the Subject

Chapter 1: The Practice Taken for Granted

Chapter 2: Development and Changes in the Practice?

Chapter 3: Young Workers and Salariiman

Chapter 4: Dual-career Couples Living Apart

Chapter 5: Dual-career Couples Collaborating

Conclusion: Career Management in Contemporary Japan

Appendix A: The Firms Interviewed by the Author

Appendix B: The Individuals Interviewed by the Author

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 236 mm
Gewicht 435 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-7936-0437-1 / 1793604371
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-0437-8 / 9781793604378
Zustand Neuware
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